After 2 years of decent music service, my iPod Shuffle (first Gen) has given up the ghost. It won't charge, no matter where I pluh it in on my PC. But that's not why I'm here. I need to buy a new player soon, but it can't be that expensive. (Highschool student budgets aren't the biggest thing in the world) I've looked up just about everything I can think of, and the one player that seems good is the "samsung U3". Cheap enough, good size memory, and it's not clunky. But I'm open-minded, and would like some recomandations for another player. If it works with RealPlayer, that would be very nice, too.

Look at Creative ZEN players. I had several of these, bought a few for friends and so far everyone like them. I also had H320 player from iRiver and it was very good till its hard disk died on me, still - I would recommend. The recommendation really depends on the budget and whether you want extras like FM tuner for example.

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